Castle Festenburg: guided tour

Let yourself be enchanted by a tour of the over 800-year-old castle and admire the many splendid and beautiful individual chapels in the Festenburg.

Tour days: Wednesday and Thursday; each at 10:00 AM
                      Sundays and public holidays: at 2:00 PM.

With prior notice, tours are also possible at other times. Prior notice is necessary for bus trips.
Phone: 0680 5568316    or: 0664 3758888

Email: diefestenburg@gmail.com    or: festenburg@aon.at

What is there to see?

• 6 chapels and the parish church (former knight's hall) with a fresco cycle by the Vorau abbey painter Johann Cyriak Hackhofer
• Armory with a knight's armor
• the most important tree species in the area
• former parish rooms: living culture around 1900  (parish office during Dr. Ottokar Kernstock's time)
• Exhibition boards about the owners of the castle and castles along the Lafnitz 
• the Festenburg mountain cemetery is also very worth seeing, with its wrought iron crosses. The motto for the cemetery is: "The poorest must have the chance to have a grave as beautiful as a rich person's."